game traveler

Chapter 18 Black Water Robbery, Snow Mountain Escape
Although Rorschach remembered that the robbery in Blackwater Town probably happened in May.However, the specific time, he is not clear.

Although Blackwater Town is not far from Valentine, it only takes about four or five hours to ride a horse.

However, Luo Xia had already made up his mind not to get involved in this muddy water.

If it was before the robbery, if he took the initiative to contact the Van der Lin gang and then joined the gang, it would be fine.

However, he didn't need to go up to please the Western Idea King, and then take his own life to go on an adventure with them, just to trigger the main mission.

It's not his character, it's not his way of doing things.

In another situation, if the robbery has already happened, then he doesn't even need to go to Heishui Town.

Because, after the robbery happened, the police from Pinkerton and Blackwater Town would chase the Van der Lin gang away, and finally ran into the snow-capped mountains north of Grizli.

If they come to the door on their own initiative, the frightened Van der Lin gang will probably regard themselves as the Pinkerton detectives or police who are chasing them, and shoot and kill themselves directly.

This way of meeting is even more unnecessary.

That's why Rorschach didn't take the initiative to find Van der Lin's gang, and stayed in Valentine to sit on the sidelines.

Facts have proved that his choice is correct.

Join the Van der Lin gang, be hunted all the way by Pinkerton detectives, and flee in fear?

Or stay in Valentine, do good deeds, and become the "Mr. Rorschach" respected by the whole town?
Which choice is more sensible, at a glance!
Thinking of this, Rorschach continued to look down, focusing on the specific content of the report:
"Biggest bank ship robbery in years! The perpetrators of such a heist are the notorious Dutchman Dutch Van der Linde and his henchmen. The criminals are wanted by the police for a reward..."

"Following a bloody shootout, Dutch Van der Linde and his associates (collectively known as the Van der Linde gang) made off with $15. Detectives from the Pinkerton Detective Agency have now banned Blackwater and launched a massive arrests."

"Authorities believe that the robbers hid the stolen money in Heishui Town before escaping. Sources pointed out that many people were looking for the stolen money hidden by the criminals, causing a mess in the public space and neighbors' gardens..."

"Residents in Heishui Town are dissatisfied with the blockade, especially merchants dealing in freight and groceries..."

The failure of the Heishui Town robbery can be said to be an important turning point for the Van der Lin gang from prosperity to decline.

Since then, Detective Pinkerton has been chasing after him like a lingering nightmare, making the Van der Lin gang exhausted and finally eliminated by the tide of the times.

Of course, everyone in the Van der Lin gang at this moment did not think of all this.

Because of the grim reality before them, there is only one:
Escape from the pursuit of Pinkerton detectives and the police!

. . . . . .

A howling blizzard swept across the entire northern mountainous area of ​​Grizli.

Everywhere you look, there is a vast expanse of whiteness.

The wind and snow joined hands to play a cold song.

But in such bad weather, four large carriages with kerosene lamps were moving forward slowly and with difficulty.

The wheels are on the pure white snow, leaving two deep ruts...

At this moment, a man jumped out of the last carriage.

The man shivered at first, and subconsciously clutched his clothes tightly with his hands, trying to prevent the biting cold wind from invading his body, then stepped on the snow and walked forward.

On the snowy ground, his walking speed was even faster than that of the carriage.

Soon, he came to the front carriage.

"Abigail said he didn't have long to live, Dutch. We've got to find a place to rest!"

Hearing this, Dutch Van der Linde, who was driving the carriage with the rein in his hand, immediately opened his dry lips and replied:

"Okay, Arthur has gone out to look for it, I sent him to look ahead"

The man who got the answer turned around and returned to the carriage.

At this time, Hosea Matthews, who was already curled up in a ball sitting beside Dutch, could not help reminding in a slightly old hoarse voice:

"If we don't find a place to stop, we will all die..."

"Damn the weather! It's May!"

"I just hope those law enforcement officers are as completely lost as we are..."

While murmuring, a sound came from the front of the road.

One man and one horse, passed through the thick snow fog, and crashed into the eyes of the two veterans of the Van der Lin gang.

It was a muscular man with a beard and a thick blue plush trench coat, a cowboy hat.

"Arthur! How's it going? Did you find anything?" Dach asked urgently.

Hearing this, Arthur Morgan raised his head slightly, revealing the resolute face under the brim of the hat that was ravaged by wind and frost:
"I found a place where we can stay!"

"There is an old mining town that has been abandoned, not far from here."

These people who are struggling forward in the snowstorm are exactly the Van der Lin gang that Rorschach was talking about!

He is also a desperado who is being hunted by Pinkerton detectives and the police!
Under the investigation of the gang's top thug Arthur, the group finally found a deserted town temporarily sheltered from the snowstorm.

And its name is Coulter Village!
. . .

squeak...

Hosea, holding a pistol in one hand and an oil lamp in the other, pushed open the wooden door of the house.

After checking the darkness and confirming that there was no one else, he put away his pistol and turned around and shouted:

"Bring him in!"

As soon as the words fell, the members of Van der Lin's gang couldn't wait to get into the house one after another.

Among them, two men were one behind the other, carrying a simple stretcher, and put a motionless injured man on a wooden table.

After everyone hid in the house, a middle-aged woman with a bun and a slightly older face held an oil lamp and began to assign tasks to everyone:

"Miss Gaskill, light the fire!"

"Miss Jones, get all our blankets..."

"Mr. Pearson, look what food we have..."

Just as everyone was moving in an orderly manner, a black-haired woman standing next to the injured man and covering her head with a scarf approached the man's nose for a look, and then revealed the bad news:

"David's dead..."

"You've really... tried your best."

While whispering, a middle-aged man standing by the table put two gold coins on the dead man's eyes.

This is a custom for the dead to bribe ferrymen with gold coins on their way to the underworld.

The dead are gone, so are the living.

Those who survive have to think about their own survival.

As the veteran and second in command of the gang, Hosea did not have time to grieve, but expressed the urgent needs of the gang:
"What do we do now? We need supplies."

Hearing this, the gang boss Daqi took a step forward and played his role as a leader:

"First of all, you stay here and warm yourself up. I have sent John and Micah out to find the way, and I will go out with Arthur now to see if I can find them."

"In this weather?" Arthur was obviously reluctant.

In fact, Daqi is not too willing to go out in such a ghostly weather.

However, he knew very well that under such circumstances, as the boss of the gang, he could not stand idly by and must take action to reverse the difficult situation of the gang as soon as possible!

So, he nodded slightly to Arthur, and then said in a deep voice:
"Just going out for a while, there is no other choice..."

(End of this chapter)